Sentences with phrase «ultimate truth of»

We humans often feel small, separate, and powerless; but that is never the ultimate truth of our existence.

If, after a searching criticism in this light which screens out anything not pertaining to the «who,» our choice of means is determined by its end, it is in the will of God, and one can say, not only that it will bring results, but also that these results were prepared in advance, that God assigned its value in advance, that it enters into the meaning of the ultimate truth of the world, and that it thus shares its efficacy.

An ultimate truth of Christianity is the nonviolence taught by Jesus, by word and example, and this precludes murder or paying for murder.

Neither these teachings nor these narratives may be imposed as articles of faith on those who seek the ultimate truth of which these things are but the temporary vehicles, and who are themselves conditioned by a totally different world view.

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

One is of course entitled to maintain the hope that all the others will one day realize the ultimate truth of one's religion and be converted, see the light or realize the truth.

I believe a believer when in a lukewarm stage / faith will become bipolar due to their disobedience towards the ultimate truth of God's word and commandments.

From the poor [we] receive in a way hardly expected new eyes for seeing the ultimate truth of things and new energies for exploring unknown and dangerous paths.

I as a Christian need Judaism to be Judaism lest the ultimate truth of God be compromised or even lost in the shallowness of a rootless Christianity.

I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version) with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.

If we follow God as set forth in the teachings of Jesus, aren't we stating that, although other religions may contain some truth, the complete and ultimate truth of God is found in Jesus (above all other revelations)?

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It has something to do with acknowledging that, in its very essence, all reasoning involves a venture of trust in an original orientation of truth to the mind and of the mind to truth, and in the ultimate unity of the two; and that, therefore, any attempt to argue from rational premises to rational conclusions that resolutely refuses to invoke what is and has always been revealed — in the mind's most primordial encounter with reality — is not really a process of reasoning at all, but a journey toward absurdity.

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

It is here, where the moral bonds of voluntary attachment have not yet been stretched beyond the breaking point, that true moral discourse can be maintained, especially, as Michael W. McConnell says, «over the highest things - matters of ultimate truth and value.»

In a similar fashion we are taught to treat the bible as the ultimate source of truth and not rely on our insights or understanding.

But Truth and Method opens with a verse of Rilke on the «eternal partner» and «the great bridge - building of God» for good reason: «establishing the ontological background of the hermeneutical experience of the world» was the work's ultimate objective.

But what I've always wondered is, if there is an ultimate truth, why doesn't God stick it smack in our faces, so we can't make these mistakes of whether women can preach and teach men, whether blacks can marry whites, whether slavery is OK, and whether we can worship with instruments or not?

Being a Modern realist, I tend to be more certain of the ability of science to obtain the ultimate truth which forms the basis of realism.

If there is a fault to find in his interpretive work, it is, I suspect, in the area of ultimate allegiance and ultimate truth.

The ultimate expression of faith in the true Christ is to be ready to give up every formulation derived from the past so as to be transformed by the opportunities of the present and future and move toward the fullness of Truth.

Catholics have always recognised that the differences between men and women are a physical reality that conveys important truths: that human marriage is a symbol - a living, life - giving, and procreative one - of the relationship between the ultimate Bridegroom, Christ, and his Bride, the Church.

Indeed, facing the truth of justification will be of ultimate benefit to both ecumenical engagement and the grounding of ethics.

And in this new perspective Jesus was seen to be himself the ultimate truth: the very embodiment of God's Word.

He claimed Christians should be extreme when it comes to «charity, of virtue, of grace, of unswerving adherence to goodness and truth, to the high goal of holiness in which lies our ultimate happiness».

I can not see Catholicism as more than the right Western manifestation of ultimate truth.

There is ultimate truth, and if our lives are not ordered to that truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the inteltruth, and if our lives are not ordered to that truth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the inteltruth then our lives, and ultimately society, will be disordered because it is not grounded in truth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the inteltruth: «Truth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intelTruth must consequently be the ultimate end of the whole universe... for the first author and mover of the universe is an intellect... and the ultimate end of the universe must, therefore, be the ground of the intellect.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

If, as Christians believe, all truth ultimately comes from God through Jesus Christ, then all roads of worldly enquiry should lead back towards the same ultimate source and conclusion, the truth of the Word.

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

Nevertheless, as far as we are concerned, it receives its ultimate truth and fulfilment only when it is celebrated as that «communion» which takes place in the daily round of our earthly life.

In his view, religion that speaks about ultimate truths in public is a species of the «enthusiasm» that he feared and despised.

The Church must continue to affirm that Truth is a Person, the Person of Jesus Christ, and that there is ultimate tTruth is a Person, the Person of Jesus Christ, and that there is ultimate truthtruth.

In short, we have the view that the world, including the theologian, is strictly valueless to God, an absolute nullity from the standpoint of ultimate truth.

without implying the answer, so the very structure of reason, its very meaning and drive toward ultimate truth, implies the existence of God as Absolute Truth, as the very Ground of retruth, implies the existence of God as Absolute Truth, as the very Ground of reTruth, as the very Ground of reason.

Human experience can help us recognise an ultimate source of truth, goodness and beauty.

This applies particularly to the ultimate truth which man wants to find or to receive, whether we call it the truth of religion or the truth of faith or anything else.

Again, religion has often been regarded as the source of ultimate truth.

For I suppress much of my actual truth, I do not want to admit it; I am perhaps in an ultimate attitude of protest without noticing it; despite all my talk about the love of one's neighbour I may even be the greatest egoist without realizing it.

My purpose, rather, is to remove the unnecessary obstructions and stumbling blocks in order to enable people to confront the central and ultimate stumbling block: the call to commitment that confronts us in the message of Jesus of Nazareth, in the understanding he gives us of God and of love, of truth and reality.

What doesn't compute with me, and probably a lot of your readers, is equating those truths with the complete and ultimate revelation of God which was Jesus.

Where the atheist scientist sees only physical processes and laws that give rise to illusions of morality and free will, I see real beauty, truth, love, good and evil, purpose to life, freedom to choose and ultimate hope.

For Origen, the truth embedded in the «semblance of history» is the teaching that God is the ultimate source of everything that exists.

In perceiving theology as a science, Pannenberg suggests that if God is ultimate truth, then the God hypothesis — the claim that God is the unity of all reality — must include within itself the current debate over God's existence.

The future alone is the focal point of ultimate truth.

But my ultimate religious obedience must be to truth, justice and the will of God as revealed in the sufferings of the Christian gay community.

the truth of God can be or has been captured in the ex-cathedra utterances of the bishop of Rome — the idolatry of many who like to pretend that ultimate truth has been captured in the ecumenical councils of the early church, in the historic creeds, or in the «unbroken tradition of the catholic faith,» which usually is the same thing as the speaker's special prejudice.

And even the idea that some book could contain ultimate truth is really the worship of images or idolatry in Christianese.

Education for democracy, therefore, should encourage the habit of sustained inquiry and the arts of sincere persuasion, and above all should confirm and celebrate faith in the priority and ultimate givenness of truth and goodness, in which the moral enterprise is grounded.

For whatever the proximate and historical sources of that truth may have been, its ultimate source is God, the same God whom Jesus called Father; else the confession of the oneness of God is empty.